Equipment for holding oils and other liquids



April 17, 1934. s. BURWEN EQUIPMENT FOR HOLDING OILS AND OTHER LIQUIDSFiled April 3, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet l Sula-mm?! Eruvvvevr ITIVE'H'I'U?HmHE April 17, 1934. s BURwEN 1,955,225

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UNITED STATES PATENT otFicE EQUIPMENT FOR HOLDING OILS AND OTHER LIQUIDSSolomon Burwen, Lynn, Mass. Application April 3, 1933, Serial No.664,102

2 Claims. (01. 221-80) This invention relates to equipment for hold-Figure 2 shows a section taken on line 2--2 ing oils and other liquidcommodities such as are in Figure stored and sold in automobile servicestations, Figure 3 shows a section taken on line S3 paint and hardwarestores, and similar estabin Figure 1. 5 lishments. Figure 4 shows a sideview of Figure 1, both It has for its purposes the conservation of floorrefilling openings being closed. space in such places as suchcommodities are Referring again to the drawings, it will be seen storedand sold; to provide a new and improved that my device consists of aseries of tanks A,

storage and dispensing unit in sections placed upo each of which smounted a p p 10 one above the other for storing and dispensing jectingfrom the front of the tank is a refilling said commodities so as torequire no greater floor duct C which is open at the top D, and has aspace than is normally occupied by a single discover E, hinged t The p jt G on the pensing unit; to thereby minimize overhead and cover, and Gon the duct C, provide a means I rental charges; to render possible thestorage oi of locking the cover E with a padlock H. An-- 15 a reaternumber of grades or kinds of liquid other projection J, protruding fromthe front, and

commodities than has heretofore been possible p t th top is esigned topermit a duin a given floor area; to render immediately aoated measuringstick L to be inserted in the tank cessible for dispensation a greaternumber of for th purp s of measuring the nt r I kinds or grades ofliquid commodities than has i The measu stick L is preferably madeheretofore been readily accessible on a given a p f t C p The p M isused to Cover floor area; to provide a readily accessible means th p ninK to x lu t or other foreign for filling such containers; to providereadily acmatter from the tank. The open K is o d cessible means forgaging the contents at any signed that the measuring Stick L will alwaysdesired time; to provide convenient means for te the a at the e The pu p25 with-drawing the liquid from said containers; to y be of y stendeld pWhich fi th 8 provide means for cleaning the containers; to pu p s u ttyp e shown s p a provide a new and improved inter-engaging and The pu pB is operated by a handle B which aligning device for said units whenstacked verp te e shaft and said shaft p t s the tically one upon theother; to provide means inp p meehehism- The handle B1 travels through30' suring the exhausting of the container contents en are of 90 toobtain the best Operating nd by the emptying means; and to provide thtions. The discharge pipe 0 and outlet nozzle P rious other advantagesand results made evident are v d above t tanks to av d aka from thefollowing specification. when tanks are filled or being refilled. Theopen- I accomplish the objects of my inve ti as ing D is positionedabove the nozzle P so that a 5 35 Shown in the accompanying drawings byprovidrefilling container can conveniently rest upon the ing a series ofcontainers in unit formation, edge of Opening Withellt placing Weight pplaced one above the other to any desired height h nozzle P dlsehelge D1 The y p so that the entire series of containers occupies of 13mm)Flhown 15 preferably 111 two no more floor space than has heretoforebeen F an and 9 sfactloni the required for one Container and byproviding inner sectlon B being positioned inside the 1 thereforsuitable means for filling, for gaging, for g g g ifi g g g ggg g? 95325 32 sgggih i z ggfi z gig S convenient to clean the interior of thecontainers, g p y g g and for putting the inner pump section I? in '45which form part of this specification and in place, and the bolts A canbe readily held while which similar letters of reference refer tosiminuts are being tightened The Opening A1 is parts throughout the f wFlgm'e covered with a cap A The tanks are adaptable 1 shows a front V1eWof my devlce m tobe placed on top of each other and are held in prlsestWO Container tanks, One Of which 15 130- place the angle jr ns in eachcorner of the sitioned above the other. The lower tank is t Theseangleir ns project b l the bott shown with the refilling orifice open,ready to of the tank and onto the top of another tank receive q The p eon the pp nk placed therebeneath. The tops of the angle irons is placedvertically so as to allow free access to R are distanced from the top ofthe tank to which 7, the refilling orifice. The remaining parts are theyare secured, equal to the projection of angle '55 in normal position asmaintained when in use. irons R below the bottom of the tank. The drippan S is hinged at T that it may be placed in an upright position asshown on the top tank in Figure 1, and thus allow refilling of the tankbelow or in a horizontal position for general use.

While I have illustrated and described a preferred construction forcarrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation ormodification without departing from the spirit of the invention. Itherefore do not wish to be limited to the exact details of constructionherein set forth, but desire to avail myself of such variations andmodifications as come within the scope, of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim .as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States of America:

1. A device of the class described comprising a pair of containers ofsimilar form and size, said containers being adapted to be stacked oneon the other, each container having angle brackets depending from thebottom thereof and constituting legs for the respective containers, eachcontainer having on one end a pump and a filling duct, the brackets ofthe uppermost container being adapted to fit over the corners of thelowermost container with their lower ends abutting the uppermost ends.of the brackets of the lowermost container, said brackels when soengaged serving to maintain the pumps and filling ducts in verticalalinement.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein each pump is provided with adischarge pipe, the discharge ends of the respective pipes beingarranged in planes above the tops of the respective containers.

SOLOMON BURWEN.

